Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-14

ceivod for the new United States sig
nal station in this city. 1t Is a second
class station, and is IN the building Of
the State Agricultural Department.
The apparatus viii be III position in
few days
AtHickoryy cstcrday Gi,dine Hoiton,
Young man who was Accidentally snot
lat week hy James Echard, died.
Eek vi has fed.
The Western North Carolina Baptist
Convention met at Clyde church,
Pigeon Valley, Haywood county, TO-
day. The attendance is large. The
convention will be in session until next
Monday.
CONGRESSMAN Rowland Of the Sixth
ii trict, is again very i'll At his home,
at Lincolntou. III, friends are greatly
concerned about his condition.
The Superior Court is in session Mt
Tumhcrton this week. Wesley Nc
Eav. tie negro who burned the stables
Of a Presbyterian minister ut Plain
view. Robson county, was tried for
lis life for arson, but gets OF With
thirty years in the pcnitentary. lie
has served two terms already Tor horse
stealing. Mckay very narrowly IS
caped !ynchine. Marshall Horn was
tried for the murder of David Butler
The crime was committed four yc'r'
ago. The evidence WAS OF no value,
lnd Horn was acquitted.
some weeks ago what WAS beloved
10 he accurate news was received from
Ashcyilic 10 the effect that 5l,U1,O)J
of the 81. COOS 600 had been hrqu"athai
the little son and daughters of George
V. Ullurl 10y James NcCurry. of Pen
der county, CAL. and Tint regular Legal
uancrs had been received. 1t is nov
said that the story il false in 50 far
that no such man as James Nccurrf
has died i'm Fender county, CAL The
clerk OF the court there knows of NJ
such man.
The Commissioner Of Agriculture
has received from sew Orleans spaci-
mems Of jute and its products, ending
with very beautiful damask, snowy and
far 10 look upon. In thc museum
here. so Iich in crude products OF Eortn
Carolina, are fine specimens OF Ju;e
crown In thcca~trrn counties. which are
admiralty adapted to it. ia this mat
ter. as ia So many others, there are
oicat possibilities. The stalks Of lptc
nine ftct In height slow how well the
plant grow. in the fertile soils Of the
! eastern coultts.
The bulletin Of the Department %.
Agriculture. which VIII appear in Il few
da,s, VIII contain reprinted article
| from the French on the culture 81 the
sllLvo1m iu connection with alllru-
tire. There is IN Increasing AMI ln-
uoyiuc market Tor silk, Nhicuit atung
much needed. Souc year, ago - Na7
found fo le difficult to dispose %; s.4E
home grown, If That tcrm can d. use Z
This discouacedmuy people "n3 we're
OF, ring cOcoou- for sale. 4 sui' ANA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS develop
tins industry ia tAis state.
The Durham Manufacturers hltt .rly
antagcmzc the repeal OF TIE tax GA
manufactured tobacco. They say It
will destroy Absolutely the value ui
their trade marks and distinctive pack
ages. a. in case OF "a repeal TIE tobacco
could be packed and rcpacSel IN OIL
boxes. and thus the commonest kinds
could masquerade as the choicest.
MI. Richmond Pearson, ol Ashcvillc,
WHO is so much spoken of as the indie
peudcnt Republican candidate for Goa
press in the Ninth district, leaves Tor
Europe this week.
Very extensive purchases OF timber
lands in Onslow county are being made
ly IA son of Colonel Charles Lamb. II,
proposes to put up thirteen large SAW.
mills and engage in regular slaughter
81 uocOsin timber.
| Eighteen months ago there appeared
around the electric lights here and at
Wilmington millions Of "BelOatom;
Amoricus." or water-wolyes. voracl)u.
and lorrible bugs which inlest fresl
water and prey upon tine eggs an,
Young Of fish. Tie bugs die by thou
sands, and as a result fish are said to hi
rapidly increasing in number This Il
PARTICULARLY the case ut Wilmington
where the catch Of fish is unusually
large
Tie reports from oil The fisheries OF
the coast and on the sounds now SHOW
that many fish are being caught. Some
time ago the fisheries were not doin3
specially well
Dcputy-Sherifr Creekmur yesterla,
returned to The penitcuiiary here lnal
named Henry ". Purncll, who escape.
in 1855. The latter went to Deep Creek
Va, and Was in Mr.. Creekmur's em
ploymeLs This spring he was clecte'
u constable Of Deep Creek township
He got into bad odor, his life was IN
CURED into, aud it was found that he
was "A convict with three years tern
to serve for larceny. Purnell made
desperate effort to escape yesterda.
while being brought here On the tram
Mr.. John r. Patrick, COMMISSIONS
of Immigration, says he cannot CIV
the actual number Of immigrants I,
this State, but that in the past fiv
years their number must run up int
the thousands. They are in all part
of the State. New York aud Pennsyl
vania furnish by far the greater nun
Der. There are some foreigners, mani
English. In the past two or tire
years people with more or less capitl
have come, rs Il rule. These settl
down and are quickly amalgamated-
swallowedup-by the native population
There are only two or three Justine
colonies Of foreigners or people frou
other States. \ hundred mines ar
operated by outsiders and with outsii
capital. Northern men are in ever
town and city in the State, promi
nent in business, earnest in wor
for the upbuilding of North Carolina
This quick absorption of foreign q
outside element Is pleasant featur,
No southern State is more progressiv
than this, and people from the Mort
like the snap and push. No State Ia
a brighter future. There is no boon
but steady, earnest work. Easter
North Carolina has not heretofore bee
developed as rapidly as the wester
pant Of the State, yet considerable
money has been put in there. Som
towns in the west, such rs Highland
and Tryon City, have been built up b